Reflections on Blogging

After re-reading my blog posts I have come to a number of conclusions. Looking at how my blogs have changed and grown from the first blog till the last was quite interesting. In my first blog I realized that I focused a little too much on simple plot summary and didn’t really push myself to think. Although I asked questions in my post, they were questions that really were simple to answer and didn’t really push to expand and complicate ideas. Looking back on my posts I think that my first post could use some revision. I think I tried to talk about too many ideas and it seems to lack a little focus and organization on my part. If I were to go back and revise it I think I would hone in a specific idea/character and really explore it further.

In my next blog I really began to move away from plot summary and into a deeper more critical response. This blog post was my favorite to write because it was something that I was really interested in. Over the course of writing these blogs I’ve come to realize, even though it sounds like a pretty simple idea, that picking a topic that I’m really interested in is crucial when it comes to writing an interesting and engaging blog post. Because I was interested in the topic of the motivation behind Isabella’s decision I felt that I was able to discuss my ideas in an interesting blog post that made me think, and I hope made others think too.

In my third post I really focused on the character of Richard. Looking back on this post I think I may have been a little too harsh in my discussion of his character. After finishing reading the play I realized that the way I view Richard dramatically changed and I think it’s interesting to look back at my blog post and see what I used to think. When finishing reading this third post it really hit me that I tend to focus on a particular character or character relationships rather than a possible theme or plot point from the play.

The aspect that I value most about weekly blogging is the ability to be able to write about whatever I want in an open environment that lets me explore what I found most interesting in a text; instead of a specific question about what maybe the teacher found most interesting in the text. In my case I think the fact that I tend to talk about character and character relationships in my posts shows that what I am most interested in is character and character relationships. In the end I think this informal blogging lets me really explore what I enjoy to write and think about and really has contributed to my ability to formulate and answer my own questions about a text.